If you're visiting our site for the first time, we offer this page as a brief explanation of what the Knife Network™ is, and what it has to offer you during your visit. We'll cover this with a brief description of the main elements of our site:

Main Site Features:

• News and Headlines
  As you navigate our site, you'll notice many links to news and headline information. As we receive newsworthy intel from around the industry, new product and prototype first looks, special show information and other leading news, we'll be using these areas to update our site with the articles and their archives. To see current news, the first and second links at the top of all KnifeNetwork.com pages will help you locate these quickly.
  
  
• Classified Knife and Supply Listings
  To see our member posted knife and supply listings, click the Classifieds link to open our member inventory database. Within this area, you can search and locate any type of knife or supply within our market. You also have the ability to search by maker, manufacturer and selling dealer. The Knife Network™ maintains a quality rating and forum feedback system for all buying and selling members. We provide this community management system to insure positive sales results between all parties. Selling members on the Knife Network are "Authorized Selling Members" and maintain a current listing access and posting account. We do not allow anonymous visitors to place items for sale on our classified listings system.
  
  
• Industry Profiles
  Organized by factory or custom, maker or dealer, you can navigate our deep industry profile system through links on this site. This contains biographical information about the member of this community, samples of their work, links to their personal contact system and personal events calendar data. You can also do a search for news, forum posts, image posts, web site previews, classified items and other valuable information.
  
  
Events Calendar System
We provide a very unique events calendar system on the Knife Network for our members to post their personal knife and gun show schedule information, including automated events notices. These are very handy in that they will help you quickly locate when and where a maker, manufacture or dealer will be located at the upcoming shows and events. These are printable and offer directions to the shows and events.

Major Events :: We will be collecting pre-announced, as well as many post reports about major events in our industry. These will be used to continually update our ongoing Events Spotlight sections of our site.


• Workshop & Tutorials
  Our workshop section contains the tutorials and how-to articles submitted by our community members. You can learn valuable knife making, collecting and care information through this information source.
  
  
• Publications and Lists
  For those visitors who would like to receive printed materials from our community of dealers, manufacturers, suppliers and makers, we provide the free Knife Network catalog subscription system for your use. We also have a Knife Network e-mail list management system which is used for online dissemination of first-look content, prototype announcements, private sale notifications and more. This is not spam ... only pre-authorized and limited information will be sent through this list. Immediate automated unsubscribe's will be honored and documented.
  
  
• Network Search
  No other site on the web offers this powerful knife industry search system! Over 500+ authorized member web sites are continually re-indexed on a 5 day automated update basis. All search information retrieved from these is guaranteed to be current within this timed content update rotation. Google hasn't picked up the latest knife placed on member A's website? Don't worry, our Network Search system has! Try it!
  
  
• The Knife Network™ "Edge Forums"
  We offer our own discussion community called, "The Edge Forums", for our members and visitors to communicate and discuss topics in the industry and other areas of common interest. Focused on both the factory and custom knife interest groups, tactics and survival, collecting, care and even privately managed manufacturer and maker boards, we are open for discussion 24 hours a day. Strong content management policies insure that our site is suitable for minors and daily content is monitored by all. You will not find a finer group of knife enthusiast's on the web! Visit Here
  
  
• Member Image Galleries
  What is a knife without an image?
  No where else on the internet will you find a community of knife enthusiast's more committed to the photographic aspect and art within our industry than on The Knife Network™. We offer photography training forums, display and contest boards and more ... among these, we offer the Member Image Gallery where members can display their own personal images. These images can be discussed, searched and more. Take a tour here.

A brief history ...

Started in 1997, AtlantaVirtual.com is today one of the leading providers of internet web hosting and web site development services for the knife industry. Today, we host over 500 domains directly serving the knife world in some capacity, from custom knife makers to major brand manufacturers and many supporting services, dealers, collectors and artists of all types.

With the advancement of programming technologies, client new feature requests and other feature additions, the geeks in our company are proud to give you The Knife Network™. The Knife Network™ is where we think the programming standard for the knife industry is for serving today's online knife enthusiast's needs. We hope you'll agree.

For your convenience, we have compiled a site map page which is very helpful for first time visitors. This page will give you a listing of all areas of our site and how they associate with each other. All information on this site is current to within 1 minute and you are three clicks from access to knife industry information, current to within 5 days, on over 500 websites, comprising our community of linked and search indexed knife sites.

If you have any questions about this site, how things work, etc., and need information or support, please let us know and we'll be more than happy to assist in getting you what you need.

We would also like to hear your feedback and suggestions. We'll be offering a new forum board for new feature requests, so please look for that soon, as well.

Enjoy your visit!

The Knife Network™